Some pretty awful comments here. I like the dog park, I wish the RR residents hadn't sued, I wish the city hadn't taken up their cause, I think Lakewood did a nice job and I'm glad the park is staying open ... but none of this is important enough to be so nasty about the folks who lost the case.

While I pretend we can't see each other or talk for the next four years, here are a few things to know:

The keys to the county are in the drawer. Help yourself to the public bank account when it comes time to get yourself an upgraded stadium. The account password is 'Sinagra.' If anyone says anything, just blame it on Dimora, make it sound like all Democrats are corrupt. You know the drill.

Thanks for the allowance, Pops! See you in four years. We are going to be even richer!

How about what the Ohio Elections Commission says, http://elc.ohio.gov/AdvisoryOpinion/99ELC-03.pdf, for starters.

"The Ohio Revised Code gives a specific definition of what is an allowable expenditure of campaign funds in R.C. 3517.01(B)(6). A refund is not specifically included therein. When the statutes of the state of Ohio do discuss the concept of a refund, it is only done in the context of campaign contribution limits and statewide candidacies and not on a more comprehensive scale across a wider array of political campaigns in this state."

So just as FitzGerald cannot refund $3200 in clean union contributions (nor should he), Dolan cannot refund his $13,000 in dirty Cafaro and Sinagra money.

How about the $6250 Dolan took from Cafaro, accused of corruption in Youngstown, or the money Dolan took from Anthony Sinagra, who's pleaded guilty to felony corruption charges in this case? Why is that being glossed over?

Wait, I have a hunch: it rhymes with "litchpunt," and Dolan appears to be getting a free pass from the PD.

Once again Dolan tries to pull the wool over everyone's eyes when he says he'll "abstain" from votes involving his uber-wealthy family, who are blithely funding his campaign to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the county-funded Gateway assets from which the Dolans benefit.

Please describe the last time a mayor or president "abstained" from a vote. Someone needs to remaind Dolan, who we remember has never held executive office, that abstaining is a legislative decision, not an executive one.

The citizens of Cuyahoga County deserve an executive who's not beholden to multi-millionaires dumping stadium-loads of money into his campaign. Sorry, Matt Dolan's not the guy.

Mr. Gomez, with all due respect, you wrote that article in July, back before anyone knew Dolan was about to take $280,000 from his Indians-owner father.

Remember Dolan's quote then? "I'm going to hold myself to avoid the appearance of any conflict." Well, what of that? Why hasn't the PD challenged him on making that quote, and then taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in a clear conflict-of-interest situation?

Untrue. FitzGerald is not a target in the corruption case. Everyone with even a little reading comprehension knows this.

What galls me about this story is that we're talking about a next-to-nothing contribution when compared with the minimum $280,000 Dolan took from his dad --- who stands to benefit directly from Dolan being county executive by virtue of the taxpayer-funded Gateway appointments Dolan would get to make.

How a small-potatoes contribution from a union (not one of its members) is cast in the same light as this kind of clear conflict of interest is way beyond me. And why the PD is not doing more to look into how Dolan would "recuse" himself (which an executive can't do) from Gateway appointments is troubling.

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